A large share of women who graduate college with an engineering degree either leave the field early or never enter it in the first place, NPR reports.

The report says a recent study presented at the annual American Psychological Association in Washington D.C. found only 62 percent of more than 5,000 female engineering grads surveyed were still working in the field.

Nadya Fouad, the study's author, told NPR the engineering industry is still an unfriendly, in some cases, hostile, environment for women and few resources are available to help women grow and advance.

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Fouad also found ran into the same issues even in all types of engineering work, from aerospace or computer software.